• by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, February 24, 2025

AI-powered search engine Perplexity said Monday it will build an artificial intelligence (AI)-based browser to support the rise of search agents.

These agents are also known as AI Agentic, a type of artificial intelligence system that can autonomously make decisions, take actions, and adapt to changing situations with minimal human intervention,

The company launched a sign-up list for the browser in a post on X today. The browser is not yet available. The company has had a major push to hire employees to build it, and there is no timeline, but there is a name — Comet.

Earlier this month, the firm became the latest AI company to release an in-depth research tool -- following Google, which unveiled something similar for Gemini AI in December, and OpenAI early in February.

These AI agents use reasoning to synthesize large amounts of online information and complete multi-step research tasks.

Deep Research, Perplexity’s tool, provides the ability to reason as well as in-depth answers with citations for professional projects -- in contrast to chatbots -- for example, to find items such as a shirt, shoes, or handbag. It generates detailed reports based on information across the web.

When users query with a question, Perplexity will perform dozens of searches, read hundreds of sources, and reason through the material to autonomously serve up a comprehensive report, the company wrote in a blog post.

Perplexity was founded in 2022 by a group of engineers with backgrounds in machine learning. Its primary product is a large language model-based search engine wherein users can type queries to get information from the web and various databases.